Improvement in feather-renovators



BENJAM|N F. CRAMER.

Y impro-vement in Feather Renovators.

` No, 115,44@ Patented May 30,1871.

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IMPROVEMENT IN- FEATHER-RENOVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,440, dated May $0, 1871.

`Tol all whom it may concern:

tion. Fig. 2 is a-vertical `transverse section.

This invention has `relation to an improvement in feather-renoyators; and it consists in providing the door of the double-Walled casing with.a perforated steam-chamber, so arranged that it will be in direct 'communication with a steam-pipewhen the door is closed, said steampipebeing of such a nature that the iow of steam may be regulated to alternately come in contact with and steam the feathers, and pass tween said walls, in communication with one branch, D, of a steam-pipe, which has a stopcock at E to regulate the flow of steam. F are i end cleats, of fa shape corresponding to that of the casing. The ends ofthe inner wall are secured to these cleats, and also to others, F', on eitherside of the opening` F. G represents a door to close said opening, and G a semicircular perforated .steam-chamber attached thereto, and open at one end for the purpose of communicating with and receiving steam from the branch D of the steam-pipe` above referred to,thisbranch being also provided with a `regulating-cock, E'.Y H is the main longitudinal aXis.

steam-pipe, which supplies the branches D D. I indicates the exhaustpipe in communication with the drying-space O. J represents semicircular notches in the end cleats F, in which rest the ends of the steam-tube G. The branch D enters the end ofthe case at the top of one ofV these notches, sol that when the door is closed the open end of the tubeG shall 'fall directly in front of said branch, as shown clearly`at Fig. l of the drawing. This apparatus is" arranged so that it may be turned on a When the feathers are placed in their receptacle the door is closed and made the base of the renovator. The steam is then turned on through the branch D', the other being closed at the same time, and allowed to enter among the feathers through the perforations in the chamber G. The steam in this way strikes the feathers from beneath, elevating and thoroughly penetrating them, thereby cleaning them perfectly and in a short space of time. After the feathi ers have been thus submitted to the action ot the steam thefrrenovator is turned around to bring the door to the top; where it is opened, and the iiow of steam changed from the receptacle to the drying-space U, through which it circulates, and by its heat drives off all moisture from the feathers, the said moisture passing off through the exhaust-tube.

What I claim as my invention is- T he feather renovator herein described, having revolving case A, dryingspace (l, featherchamber as represented, perforated steam-chamber G arranged in the door G, as shown, Atogether with the Vnotched cleats F and pipes and cocks, as described, constructed,

and arranged, substantially as specilied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses. 1 l V BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CRAMER.

y Witnesses:

J. G. EBLING, I. A. JERK. 

